During the weekend the girls and I went to visit an organic garden centre. A good friend of mine works there, and we met up with her and her kids to feed the animals, water everything, and have the children play for a while.

The air inside the greenhouses was hot and moist, and after feeding the sheep, and walking around for a bit, we had water melon and biscuits in one of the gardens. My well-prepared friend had brought apple juice for the children, and she even prepared a cup of fresh mint tea for her and me – mmmmm.

One of the greenhouses is not really being used at the moment, and my friend and another girl have been asked to try and turn it into a café combined with a flower shop, which seems like a brilliant idea.  Even though it has been left alone for a long time, it’s really just enchanting. The grapes are growing wild in one half of the green house, and there is some old cast iron garden furniture in there, which would be beautiful with a bit of paint and some pretty cushions. The project is still in the planning phase, but I can’t wait to see what they’ll do.

Frida was wearing her new flower pants, so I thought I’d show you what they look like on her.  She got sooo tired from the heat, and the company of the other children, so eventually we had to leave to get her home to her nap. Before we headed out I got to pick some flowers to take home from the greenhouses. What a nice way to spend a few hours.

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We had a wonderful day – even though it does sometimes drive me crazy when Mads has to work on the house with every chance he gets. Still, that is the way we have agreed from the beginning that it should be. We didn’t want the kids to get lost in our house project, so that’s why Mads is working on the house, and I take care of the girls and whatever else there is to take care of inside. And it’s quite a bit.

But we did have a wonderful day – we have all been at home today, and while Mads started the day white washing the back of the house and Frida dozed off in the pram, Ronja and I played with fusible beads. Ronja does that a lot at the moment. She arranges them in peg boards, and I iron them – and sometimes I also agree to the trusted task of finding beads in a certain colour for her. We have a really nice time doing this together, and she has built up quite a collection of artworks made from fusible beads.

After lunch we all went to a garden centre to buy some flowers and plants for the yard out back, and when we got home the girls both needed a nap, so I had the opportunity to plant the flowers in my pots right away. Now we just need to get the yard cleaned up so that we can arrange the acquisitions.

Mads is home again tomorrow, so on to the white washing of the front. Exciting!